The booze is behind the toilet -- Bone dry or damp: the war years and prohibition -- Robbin' hoods -- Add three drops of creosote and let it age three hours -- Pickled pigs -- Drying up the state -- The dry desert moistens Los Angeles -- Bootleggers -- Those miners will take anything--prostitution -- Dry humor -- Rumrunning war -- By land--the border war -- By air--smugglers fly it in -- Race to the city -- The wet Imperial County -- A peanut exposes the LAPD -- I remember -- Put a padlock on the redwood tree -- Mean bull--no responsibility for injuries -- Machine guns to Frisco: Baby Face Nelson and organized crime -- San Francisco--as wet as the Pacific Ocean--but don't waste it -- The mountain folk -- I didn't know he was making it on my farm -- The peaceful peninsula -- The last stand -- The Wickersham letters -- Dampening the drys -- Happy days are here again -- A wooden sandwich make a drink legal -- The legacy.